The Musk Effect: Will Twitter Sink or Swim?
Elon Musk, a man of many hats – from Tesla CEO to SpaceX founder – the outspoken billionaire is undoubtedly already a prominent figure within contemporary discourse. Though as is…
Second-Year Politics Student Solves Racism in Twitter Thread | Turbine
Shock and disbelief emanated around social media and the wider world as Jason O’Connor wrote the definitive solution to all racism and discrimination in a 68-part Twitter thread. Despite having…
How Twitter Changed Journalism – For Better and For Worse
Oh, the times they are a-changin’. Student journalists often forget what the world was like before Twitter and social media. In ‘the olden times’, there were no retweets, notifications or…
An Interview with UCD Confessions
Last year, if people wanted to hear the unfiltered opinions of their fellow students on anything and everything, it could be done by eavesdropping over a warm pint of fosters…
Trump Resigns After Z-List Celebrity Roasts Him On Twitter
After a horrible year in office, during which time he enacted many awful policies that caused so much hurt and suffering for good people, Donald Trump was forced to resign…
Trump’s Social Media Serves to Distract from the Harsh Reality in Washington
American journalist Bret Stephens recently revealed that only 17% of young people aged 18-24 read a newspaper daily. Stephen’s article, ‘Don’t Dismiss President Trump’s Attacks on the Media as Mere…
The Political Danger of the Online Echo Chamber
As the events of the last 18 months have demonstrated, we are living in uncertain times. We can’t seem to trust polls anymore and nobody is quite sure where it’s…
#UCDBall – 2013 – What Twitter Thinks
Already have my dress sorted for the UCD ball . Quite exciting stuff . — LizzieAMcC(@LA18xx) April 12, online 2013 Fair enough moving the #ucdball off campus but do the…